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Old Church

1931-1946; printed 1996

New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white linocut, Old Church, by Hale Woodruff, printed at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Shop, New York City, 1996. The print depicts a side view of an old wooden church with bell tower. The church sags at the roof and on its raised foundation, and is missing several pieces of its wooden siding. In the bottom margins is the edition, [78/100] at left and [© Hale Woodruff] at right. There are no markings on the reverse of the sheet.

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Catalog reference: 2015.145.1.2

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